Summary: retired
social worker for Alameda County, California who was among one of more than
25,000 people reported missing and presumed dead in the aftermath of the
catastrophic Hurricane Katrina tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern
United States and killed at least 1,245 other people during the record-breaking
2005 Atlantic hurricane season as the storm caused severe destruction along the
U.S. Gulf Coast from central Florida to Texas due to the storm surge and levee
failure before making its second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in southeast
Louisiana in late August 2005, in which it was one of the five deadliest
hurricanes in the history of the United States since the 1928 Okeechobee
hurricane.